The document outlines a framework for collaborative journalism that involves defining community needs through research, building platforms to enable functions that address those needs, and evaluating how the platforms empower communities and transform journalism. It poses questions about how this approach sustains business models as it shifts from simple content transmission to enabling sharing and collaboration, and how it may influence which stories are covered, affect journalistic ethics, redefine skills, and transform how journalism engages with people's lives.

1. Framing Journalism
as a collaborative action

2. PLATFORM
ACT!
COLLECT
and
EVALUATE
COMMUNITY
NEEDS
DEFINE
POSSIBLE
ACTIONS
Ethnographic
Research!
Internal
Research!
IA and UXD!
BUILD
ENVIRONMENTS
Collect
Data!
REPORT
Who owns the platform?

3. PLATFORM
TRANSMISSION
SHARING of RESOURCES,
COLLABORATION

4. PLATFORM
EPHEMERAL CONTENTS
DURABLE SHARING
AND COLLABORATION
DURABLE CONTENTS
(trust)

5. PLATFORM
EPHEMERAL
CONTENTS
DURABLE SHARING
AND COLLABORATION
DURABLE CONTENTS
Place #1 Place #2 Place #n
Function #1 Function #2 Function #n
A Function is an Action that solves a need
...and empowers

6. A Function gives meaning to partecipation

7. ● How the journalism's need of platforms is sustainable from a business point of
view?
● How to investigates needs?
● How to identify the functions that we want to accomplish?
● How the business model follows the transition from transmission to sharing?
● will journalism be influenced by this "desire of taking action" to the point of choosing
the stories to be covered on that base?
● How this trend affects the ethic of journalism? Who will we empower?
● How the skills of journalists will be re-defined?
● How this trend will affect and transform the way journalism get in touch with
people's lifes? (newspapers, magazines, sites, applications)